Strange News: Counterfeit COVID Vaccines, Coups Happen All The Time, and Everyone Just Got Hacked
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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4.2 • 11K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2020
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
There's a growing industry dedicated to forging proof of COVID-19 vaccinations. Another attempted coup goes widely unreported in the west -- and it's part of a larger pattern. Hackers -- Ben thinks Russian in origin -- just successfully cracked into multiple systems across the planet, including agencies of the US government. All this and more in this week's Strange News segment.
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| 0:00.0 | You can think of a nation as a place with a border, a set of laws, flags, and people, but really a nation needs a story, a story to tie the whole thing together. |
| 0:09.5 | So what to do then about the inconvenient parts of the nation's past, the parts that call the whole thing into question. |
| 0:16.5 | On the new season of White Lies, we tell a story about immigration, about indefinite detention, and about how sometimes it's the lies that bind us together. |
| 0:25.0 | Listen to the White Lies podcast from NPR, within the I Heart Radio app or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:31.0 | Facing evil is back, and we're bringing you conversations that matter. |
| 0:36.0 | I can't tell you how many times she had said he's going to kill me. |
| 0:39.0 | I will never escape him, he will find me and he will kill me. |
| 0:42.0 | We're talking with experts and change makers devoted to making a difference in these tragic two crime stories. |
| 0:49.0 | Our system failed us. We need to make sure that that does not happen again. |
| 0:54.0 | Listen to Facing Evil on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 1:01.0 | Daniel Miller is a millennial con artist. |
| 1:04.0 | I'm a social media influencer. |
| 1:06.0 | Busted while recovering from Brazilian butt lift surgery. |
| 1:09.0 | She was yelling at the police for like getting her butt tissue out of joy when they were hand-glued. |
| 1:14.0 | She's got hundreds of victims. |
| 1:16.0 | To me, that's not a con artist that just is a straight-up predator, and she just keeps getting away with it. |
| 1:22.0 | Is the person the danger? |
| 1:24.0 | Queen of the Con, Season 3, on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:55.0 | Hello, welcome back to the show. My name is Met. |
| 1:58.0 | My name is Noel. |
| 1:59.0 | They call me Ben. We're joined as always with our super producer, Lexus Code name Doc Holiday Jackson. |
| 2:06.0 | Most importantly, you are you, you are here, and that makes this stuff they don't want you to know. |
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